Publication Date
| In 2026 | 0 |
| Since 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2022 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2017 (last 10 years) | 0 |
| Since 2007 (last 20 years) | 8 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
| Armijo, Michael | 1 |
| Diaconis, Athena | 1 |
| Estrera, Elc | 1 |
| Everhart, Nancy | 1 |
| Gillespie, Jessica N. | 1 |
| Goldsworthy, Heather | 1 |
| Gray, Abigail | 1 |
| Gray, Sophia | 1 |
| Hafford, Carol | 1 |
| Hernandez, Marc | 1 |
| Holmstrom, Kristi | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 8 |
| Journal Articles | 7 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
Education Level
| Elementary Education | 4 |
| Secondary Education | 3 |
| Early Childhood Education | 2 |
| High Schools | 2 |
| Adult Basic Education | 1 |
| Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
| Grade 1 | 1 |
| Grade 3 | 1 |
| Grade 4 | 1 |
| Junior High Schools | 1 |
| Middle Schools | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Audience
Location
| Pennsylvania | 2 |
| Indiana | 1 |
| Michigan | 1 |
| Minnesota | 1 |
| Thailand | 1 |
| United Kingdom (England) | 1 |
| United Kingdom (Scotland) | 1 |
| Utah | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
| No Child Left Behind Act 2001 | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
| Dynamic Indicators of Basic… | 1 |
| Iowa Tests of Basic Skills | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 1 |
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 1 |
Download full textDiaconis, Athena; Estrera, Elc; Hafford, Carol; Hernandez, Marc; Markovitz, Carrie; Muyskens, Paul – Corporation for National and Community Service, 2015
Minnesota Reading Corps is the largest AmeriCorps State program in the country. Its mission is to help every Minnesota child become a proficient reader by the end of third grade. To meet this goal, the Minnesota Reading Corps and its host organization, ServeMinnesota Action Network, engages a diverse group of AmeriCorps members to provide…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, State Programs, Tutoring, Enrichment
Peer reviewed
Direct linkHolmstrom, Kristi; Wong, Lok-Sze; Krumm, Andrew E. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2015
Raven Elementary teachers collaboratively adhered to a systematic reading program, administered frequent assessments, and their students' test scores improved over time. Our findings indicate that, though effective for improving certain outcomes, such a tightly designed and narrowly focused system created a limiting learning environment for…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Programs
May, Henry; Gray, Abigail; Sirinides, Philip; Goldsworthy, Heather; Armijo, Michael; Sam, Cecile; Gillespie, Jessica N.; Tognatta, Namrata – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
Reading Recovery (RR) is a short-term, one-to-one intervention designed to help the lowest achieving readers in first grade. This article presents first-year results from the multisite randomized controlled trial (RCT) and implementation study under the $55 million Investing in Innovation (i3) Scale-Up Project. For the 2011-2012 school year, the…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Grade 1
Meidl, Tynisha D. – Current Issues in Education, 2013
This qualitative study focused on how teachers in a small, urban elementary school in Pennsylvania negotiate their beliefs and instructional delivery the classroom. In the area of literacy instruction, there has been an increased reliance on Core-reading programs in elementary school. Classroom teachers, caught in the middle, are charged with the…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Elementary School Students, Urban Schools, Elementary School Teachers
Hyder, Eileen; Tissot, Cathy – Disability & Society, 2013
Inclusive practice is well embedded across society and has developed over time. However, although policy and public view have moved forward, the way organisations address the agenda for inclusion often represents a superficial interpretation of this concept. Qualitative data were gathered using new ethnography to explore the experiences of a…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Social Justice, Ethnography, Discourse Analysis
Huang, SuHua – Reading Horizons, 2012
The mixed-method explanatory research design was employed to investigate the effectiveness of the Accelerated Reader (AR) program on middle school students' reading achievement and motivation. A total of 211 sixth to eighth-grade students provided quantitative data by completing an AR Survey. Thirty of the 211 students were randomly selected to…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Acceleration (Education), Program Effectiveness, Middle School Students
Wan-a-rom, Udorn – English Language Teaching, 2012
The study was aimed to examine how EFL learners of English reacted to graded readers in terms of reading strategy use, comprehension, speed, and attitude as well as motivation when control for ability level was determined. Eighty Thai high school students placed into their own reading level of graded readers by the scores gained from the graded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Zacamy, Jenna; Gray, Sophia; Jaciw, Andrew; Newman, Denis – Empirical Education Inc., 2013
In October 2010, WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) won an i3 "Validation" grant to scale up and validate the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) model in three core secondary content area classes: U.S. history, biology, and English language arts. SLI's proposal stated two goals. Goal 1: To transform academic literacy teaching and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Content Area Reading
Everhart, Nancy – School Library Media Research, 2005
In this study of the Accelerated Reader (AR) program, qualitative and quantitative analyses of the relationship between the implementation of AR and student motivation and extent of reading are drawn from data collected in three schools in Scotland and England. These schools represent low (Scotland, n=53), middle (Scotland, n=40), and high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Programs, Program Implementation, Student Motivation
